In the co-headliner of Thursday’s UFC on Versus 3 event at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky., Munoz (10-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) dropped Dollaway (11-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) with a pair of vicious right hands and prompted the stoppage with a couple follow-up shots.

And while some, including Dollaway, initially protested the stoppage, Munoz knows the replays told a different story.

“It was a right (hand) that I got right on his chin,” Munoz told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) of the blow that set up the 54-second win. “I then stepped back and got the uppercut. That’s what dropped him. He was out. I looked at the ref, and I’m like, ‘You’re not going to stop it? OK.'”

After a few more blows to the nearly unconscious Dollaway, veteran referee Mario Yamasaki halted the bout and awarded Munoz the TKO win.

“He was definitely out,” Munoz said. “You could see it on the replays.

“I was beside myself. I didn’t know where to go. To win on that stage in that way, it was unbelievable. It’s such a high. I was just running around, though I wanted to make sure C.B. was OK.”

Facing a fellow Division I All-American wrestling standout, Munoz went through an intense pre-fight camp and expected to go the full 15 minutes with Dollaway. Like his opponent, Munoz has improved by leaps and bounds in his recent fights, and he wasn’t sure which version of Dollaway would show up.

“I was prepared to go 15 minutes,” he said. “For my whole camp, I was going like six rounds in sparring with a new guy coming in each time.”

Instead, Munoz’s night ended quicker than a minute (and thankfully, Dollaway proved just fine). Admittedly, Munoz was ready to showcase some of his new skills before the surprise ending.

“I work hard, and I want to earn everything I get,” he said. “I know (with my) strength and conditioning, I’m one of the best guys out there. I know I need to concentrate on my weaknesses, which is my striking. But I think my ground game is good, but no one has really seen it. They saw some of my submission defense against Kendall (Grove), and I was ready to counter some guillotines and Peruvian (neckties) today. But he actually backed away and didn’t want anything to do with me on the ground.

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